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ian, you've obviously been in germany too. matter outside its own borders, cross—border in europe and internationally? tensions between the uk, europe, america as we face east. it obviously matters hugely, it's the most important country in europe. it's interesting also that i thought the greens did quite well and were probably the most forceful on the emerging issues of how to deal with the dictatorial regimes, in china particularly but also in russia. the whole attitude towards pressure is quite interesting with the energy crisis whereby germany seems very complacent about russia and this is alarming some of its allies but particularly in eastern europe in poland, ukraine and the baltic states. it symbolised by the new gas pipeline which allows putin to pump his into europe and circumvent ukraine. we've also seen how the greens came back, that was very interesting. i was also very struck by the spd were in the doldrums at the start of the year and were nowhere. it does show again the volatility of european politics. here is

any anti— shells of petro shortages in germany? h0. of petro shortages in germany?tty over the next few days, spells of heavy rain, gale—force winds, the possibility of travel disruption — autumn has well and truly arrived, on cue. now, this is the satellite picture, and the weather is looking pretty rough over the atlantic, areas of heavy weather are developing, low pressure already centred between scotland and iceland, sending showers across the uk. but this next area of low pressure just to the south—west of our neighbourhood is already rearing its head through the early hours of saturday morning, with increasing winds and rain. but central and eastern areas, early in the morning, actually not too bad at all. there will be some clear spells, fairly chilly with temperatures around 5 degrees, for example, in norwich. and here is the weather in the morning, it goes downhill very quickly out towards the west, and then that heavy rain, this developing low pressure means that the area of rain expands, the winds are increasing, gale—force winds in south—eastern areas —

at the time, germany's booming postwar economy desperately needed more workers.by the time recruitment ended in 1973, about 850,000 so-called guestworkers moved from turkey to west germany, most eventually returned home. but not her. she married, had a daughter she had her own small shop, got divorced, eventually retired, so today, after nearly 60 years in germany, does she feel turkish or german? >> [speaking foreign language] translator: what a funny question? i feel like me. brent: sports news and football. italy face pain wednesday and did nation's league semifinal two months after the two clashed in another semifinal. italy won the game on penalties, part of an unbeaten run that stands at a record 37 games. belgium and france face-off in the other semifinal. the final will be played on sunday. you are watching "dw news." after a short break, i would take you through "the day." tonight, a whistleblower, and what facebook and instagram are doing to us and our children. we will be right back. ♪ >ñ >> welcome to life in paris, world news and analysis from france

today, i'm in rural northern germany, stable, prosperous, 21st century germany. i'm here to talk about the past and its relationship to the present. my guest is the writer, journalist and son, niklas frank. now, his father was appointed by hitler to be the governor general of nazi occupied poland. he was intimately involved in the murder of millions of people. so how has this german son dealt with the terrible crimes of his father? niklas frank, i'm wondering why you have chosen to make your life in the very far north of germany. is it because you wanted to get as far away as possible from your family background in bavaria? no. i still love bavaria. and every year, we spend many weeks in bavaria in the same village where i grew up. it was my professional journalist, at a magazine which i worked for 23 years based in hamburg. so i had to lure my wife from munich because she was a big gardener to a house with a big garden, and it was a good idea, and so we've lived here for 33 years. this place where you now live is extraordinarily peaceful. yes, it is. would you s

that is effective in germany like and then an example and with power over germany's economy. >> that. you are in the white house. you are national security advisor you have the top job in the institution that brings together military and diplomatic initiatives to the united states at the moment at the moment when the whole country partly because the donald trump and president xi though whole country is realizing that china will not be a friend. we are in for something new "berlin on —- the berlin wall is an analogy for the great firewall of china the combination of laws and technology to isolate the realm of the chinese communist party from outside influence". all kinds of things are different what all the russians have ever got from us the chinese are invested in silicon valley up and down. >> a lot of things are different. that you are arguing there is something central to the relationship of china and is not that different from the relationship of the struggle of the soviet union. is that correct? >> absolutely you can see that. this is an ideological competition and also that req

in germany, we call it... this scarecrow, it's the most expensive one in germany, i would say, because i bought it from a soldier's heir who had stolen it. the coat you mean? the coat, yes. so one of the heirs gave me a call asking if i would be interested in this coat of my father, i said yes, and he wanted, she wanted $500, and i paid it. you mean this old military grade coat, this leather coat, is actually your father's old coat? yes. what i have to admit, since this scarecrow is standing here, i have got a stronger connection to my father, it's very strange. and always when i am sitting in our living room looking at him, being a scarecrow in the end, father, that's your fault. niklas, i want to hear more about your family history, dig deeper into your relationship with their father, but i also went to get out of this cold north german wind. good idea. why don't we head back into your home? okay, that's great. bye—bye, scarecrow. niklas frank, welcome to hard talk. thank you. do you feel that you have some

yeah, over there in germany again, germany is taken in so many people from abroad. so many asylum seekers. g, g. bear that in mind as well. ok. people are coming from terribly trouble backgrounds, often are the trying to find new lives and they come from different societies, ways of living ways of being. it's not just good enough to say, hey guys, you're in safety now. i suppose that you're a lot of assimilation, a lot of looking after a lot of point to the right direction is enough of that being done over in germany . oh not. there's not enough done like this over in germany as well. so if you look at the case of migration, 1st of all, if we don't ask the nato states, for example, we don't conduct and was like enough gas. or like in syria, people wouldn't have to leave their countries. that's the 1st step. then we have to see that if people come to live and. busy countries, of course they have to have a good education if we take them and then we have to give them the possibility to work. and of course we have to as well, if people come traumatized from wall countri

there germany still holds a very strong position. also the professional education system is clearly earn an important pillar of the economy, which is still working very well. but, and here the 2 quotes are correct. there are some weaknesses in particular, when we talk about the coverage of high speed internet and access in particular and the mo bile sector. there are still a room for maneuver, but we also have to, i have to say that the situation there is improving gradually early, but it is improving. what impact has the black 0 ro had r d? thank always keeping one eye on the budget deficit. the balanced budget sir, is not hindering germany. forum are investing, we have seen are almost record high levels of government investment to being in line with the so called lex 0. it's a question of setting the right priorities. what is, are actually expanding massively in germany is our items are, are in the budget. the rich have a lot to do was there's funding for social on support of programs. we an aging population. therefore the pension

i was serving as a captain in the united states cavalry on the border of east germany and west germanyn november 1989. and on that day near colbert germany the town where martin luther translated the bible intogerman , the birthplace of hans morgan, is where our soldiers, cavalry troopers went from one moment she stare down east german border guards to the next moment seeing the gates thrown open and then tens and then thousands and then tens of thousands of east germans pouring across that border bearing bouquets of water and bottles of wine. i saw a direct correlation not to the speech but to the result that president reagan demonstrated by effecting a renaissance in our military in the 1980s. and demonstrating our resolve to as you said in his words when you cited thatearly interview that we win and they lose . i felt a direct correlation and got to witness it firsthand in kohlberg west germany. >> i'm going to try one more time to find somebody who will stay with me. i'm way over doing this. you know correctly, you say the speech at the time was largely ignored and i remember a lit

were bigger than, well were bigger than germany's own. shines. like, don't you, ellen? no one expected that of course, we also didn't expect that to happen so quickly. i mean, that would attract so big an audience of so much success. they made us out to be a bogeyman. they refused to give us a license. they forbade banks for working with us. they pressured luxembourg, so we couldn't get a license there. and when all that didn't work, they deleted us from youtube using a far fetched pretext. that was predictable because no normal person believes that freedom of speech exists in this countries. the question is how we rush respond. we're looking forward to it or should foreign ministry spokeswoman muddy the heart of law also we'd in by saying that would just happen. ah, was an act of aggression and that there was going to be a symmetrical response directed at german media working in russia. now, the message should, didn't clarify what exactly that means, but i guess her art driven colleagues working here should be bracing for a bumpy road ahead. it

cheap atomic power to germany. so. busy to get germany in the black mailing position and the same with the polish, even the polish, i don't want germany to be energy efficient, especially not with russia. and the 2nd thing is that they are daily, they deli want to have the trying to see from, from russia, and what to create to them. that even the governments made promises to recreate and poland for 4 credit fees. i mean, the, the g strategic interests are so obvious that i don't believe in, in it just coincidentally, or in just, yeah, i, as you say that it's all going on on a mac. true level, isn't it? but you still got that mom in the street opening his bills in the morning and being shocked at the prices. the commissioner say that millions of europeans can't afford to heat their homes, millions of people. what's the way i tear i care? well, the way out is pretty easy and start to, to get the supply to europe increased by filling up all pipelines. they are especially offspring too. and so on. get the market in so

for many germany is the envy of the world. an export juggernaut with its world beating motor industry and the lowest debt burden of any g 7 nation. and therein lies many of its problems. the auto industry for a long time dismissed tesla as a niche and stubbornly pushed diesel. that was until the car makers admitted to cheating environmental tests. now tesla is worth $766000000000.00. that's more than twice as much as b. m. w. daimler and volkswagen combined. as they spent billions of dollars rolling out electric cars, $215000.00 jobs could be lost because there's no need for complicated combustion engines. that's almost a quarter of the number of people employed directly by the auto industry. now that belated investment has been reflected in other areas of the economy, while it's research and development spending banks highly had spending on digitization artificial intelligence and broadband has a lot to be desired. in a ranking of the world's most innovative countries seen hair, germany pops up the top 10 countries. but the a

see you did go back to germany _ of war. see you did go back to germany and _ of war.rmany and discovered - of war. see you did go back to germany and discovered nazi | germany and discovered nazi offices in archives and tried to find evidence of the nazi atrocities by german doctors, officers, lawyers, judges and generals. it was quite all pervasive, the people were involved in the atrocities. the united states _ involved in the atrocities. tue: united states particularly involved in the atrocities. tte: united states particularly felt the international military tribunal trial was just a camera shot of tribunal trial wasjust a camera shot of a small sample and to really understand how a civilised country like germany could commit and tolerate the type of atrocities that were committed. you should understand the position that the doctors who performed the experiments, the lawyers and judges who perverted the law, the murderers who did the actual killings. the industrialists who were working people to death. all of these were specific groups in the united states said le

were bigger than well, you were bigger than germany's own. shines. like, don't you, ella? had no one expected that of course i also didn't expect that to happen so quickly. i mean, that would attract so big an audience. i'll have so much success. if they made us out to be a bogeyman, they refused to give us a license. so did they forbade banks for working with that? tell them if they pressured luxembourg, that we couldn't get a license narrowly bond when all that in the word that he deleted us from you till now. he's using far fetched brita example. that was predictable because no normal person believes that freedom of speech exists in this countries. the question is how we rush respond i am we're looking forward to it was just foreign ministry spokeswoman muddy. the hot dog also weighed in by saying that would just happen. ah, was an act of aggression and that there is going to be a symmetrical response to directed at german media work and in russia. now the message shed didn't clarify what exactly that means. but i guess her, our german colleagues

for germany's ruling christian democrat. they both said that it's a step backwards for press freedom in europe. does this thing? oh, clearly this situation does not with european freedom in a positive light home. we have to acknowledge that deny media space has been subject to censorship and manipulation, which reminds me of the worst times in germany. it's in our interests for our see to make an even greater contribution to german and european media diversity. hodge, as i've said before, r t has become an integral component of european press freedom. we as citizens have the right to be informed and have access to high quality journalist regardless of its origin, others fitness. i considered it a challenging situations and now the russian point of view, public or political, is being more and more surprised. archie deutsch does not have a particularly good reputation in germany, not with readers, but rather among their colleagues. they don't like our tea deutsche, because it has broken their monopoly and the dictate of opinio

it was before, germany was still parliamentary. then hitler became chancellor and everything changed. and i mean overnight. we saw very rapidly germinate progress from a parliamentary democracy to a fascist dictatorship. she stepped up her efforts to recruit but she had to be a lot more careful because if she recruited the wrong person she could be turned over to the gestapo. it sounds rather mild. really in a dictatorship they're denouncing hitler of the nazi party. he will be sent to a concentration camp and that's exactly what happened to two of the recruits. they were let out than the camera right back into the group and kept going. you get a sense of commitment of the people in this group. it is a diverse group. there are jews in the group, catholics in the group, they were factory workers, they were professors, they were students, they were artists, they were office workers, there were social democrats so they were covid in their hearts at least called themselves this. and 40% were women. over the course of eight years , it w

better to say germany from, from russia. and so this, i guess they want to blackmail europe and tell them either you help us now. well, we will re adjust our politics towards russia. do you think they'll try and help mold over? yes, i think they will try, and that's why they hurry up in germany to get the new government set in. but it's but it's once to help everybody outside germany that has no problem with giving german texts, pam money away for free. and i think they will do this yes. with a lot of western media, lots for kids guys from playing politics with its contracts to politics. have anything to do with it in this case? well i think i don't, i think it poppy has because i guess from is facing restrictions in more. yeah. due to this very progress on government and of course guess from says why should we help you if you are on the other hand, are putting on restrictions and so on against us. so in this matter, i think this is politics. yes. and if nice, the difficulties with them or government wouldn't be there, i thi

the cost of living in germany is on the rise. it's clear when you go to the supermarket and see the prices a fruit vege. it's even clearer when you go onto the full course of paint chill stations. and what we're seeing really is the unstoppable force of rising fuel. prices colliding with the immovable object that is german reliance on the automobile. it's prompted. some german motorists to cross national boundaries like coming here to poland in order to try and find a cheaper alternative to filling up. driving across the border, just refuel is particularly worthwhile. if the price difference is a high and the distances are very short, germany has some of the highest fuel prices in the european union. and to break down this whole situation into its most basic form, if you wish to fill up a full tank of fuel on the side of the river odor in germany, it would cost you around 25 years more than if you were to philip here. in poland, i spoke to some people who made that journey from germany to poland. in order to fill lead time today.

it has been three weeks since federal elections in germany.e know that the parliament will be younger and more diverse, including germany's first two transgender parliamentarians. reporter: they have made history. the two green party mps are the first trans women to win seats in germany's parliament, the bundestag. >> it was an incredibly intoxicating feeling. >> i was ecstatic on the day of the election. reporter: one of them will move from north rhine-westphalia to the capital of berlin. at just 27, she is one of the youngest members of parliament. >> when i went into politics over 10 years ago, there were no trans role models. i only knew about trans people from a tabloid-driven with sensational points of view where it was only about operations. reporter: tessa has been politically active for over 20 years. originally from bavaria in southern germany, her main focus will be on your political issues and climate protection. >> in the bundestag, i would also like to build on the political work i have been doing in the bavarian state parliament

today, the germany boss was a no-show at a meeting of national coaches.hat is being seen as a sign of thief's proposal to switch to every two years is losing momentum. one said it could endanger fee funds unity. >> it is one of the most iconic trophies in all sport. whether the men's and the women's world cups will be lifted every two years is badly splitting the game. world governing body fifa has held a week of important meetings on the topic. an invitation to thursday's online seminar for national coaches was declined by the germany boss. european football powers such as germany are against the idea because they believe there is already too much football. some national associations could consider quitting fifa. >> worst case, i think this could divide the football family and there will be a break with fifa. >> the fifa president has been drumming up support around the world. a vote on the issue in december know appears to have morphed into more consultations. after the international olympic committee also criticized the plans as rushed. >> we have rece

interest it's germany's also. busy merit that this project has been jointly with russia been completed successfully. yeah, interesting point. we'll see what actually comes from that. who is doing the deals just another word on this had the pipeline being put into operation say a year ago. could it have prevented some of the current crisis we're seeing? yeah, definitely, because the supply capacity would have been much greater before already. and now yeah, we are in a difficult situation and therefore it's also up to the you now to speak of the last certification process to allow gas are really flowing into the european union. and i just want to finally touch on. busy another aspect, hungarian prime minister, victor, or bon blame, the current gas prices in part on the e use own green policies that pushed towards them. do you see a connection there at all? of course, in germany there is a direct connection to it. and above all, we have to see bad blaming fossil fuel. so for climate change also a somehow brings a bad

resistance to nazi germany. the french have gotten a lot of that already. we have lots and lots of biographies on french female resisters. but the german one not so much. the one with the white rose, the others. but that's important in this book to my view. again, as a historian of the resistance. and the fact that the base in question here happened to be american will certainly be of special interest to american leaders of this book. i think useful to keep in mind that the same state that gave us senator joe mccarthy also endowed us with mildred harnack, right? so that american connection really very interesting. it will remain a american quality to mildred harnack throughout her life. it's an american story in part. and that i think needs to be kept in mind. the final note of specialness. i find this really very significant. final note of specialist i want to mention is the way in which the story is told by rebecca donner. remember, she is an accomplished novelist. and this book, without sacrificing one iota o

germany's new parliament assembles for the first time since the election a month ago. also on the program, vaccines for children. health experts in the u.s. are considering whether to recommend use of the coronavirus vaccine in young kids. and sacrificing for love. in a controversial move, japan's princess mako renounces her royal title and marries her non-royal boyfriend. ♪ welcome to the program and welcome to our viewers on pbs. it's been a month since germany's general elections, though the country still does not have a new government. it does have a new parliament. and today, the new parliament, younger, more female, and more ethnically diverse met in session for the first time. the social democrats are now the biggest party in parliament. the outgoing chancellor, angela merkel, has been formally released from office, though she will live a caretaker administration, until a new government is in place. let's have a look at how this new parliament shapes up, with 736 members, the bundestag is now one of the largest parliaments in the world. it's never been this big.

and rti has been struggling to start a teeny broadcast in germany for many years, facing both overton hayden resistance. so all in all is been an extremely harsh environment. hostile environment for our fellow colleagues in germany. so these been, seem like kosh treatment what, what was the, the potential crime that was committed? well, as usual, in these cases, the response from me media platform is vague and ye tube send our colleagues in germany message saying that there were, quote repeated violations of community guidelines. so, you know, that's it. you get out of the platform. google, which owns you tube, a gave us a more detailed response. so let's have a listen. ye cheap has clear community guidelines which explain what is allowed on the platform. all t deutsch was issued a warning for uploading content that violates our rules in relation to cov, at 19 medical misinformation policy. this results in the suspension of their right to upload videos during the suspension. the channels owners tried to bypass the restrictions by using a different channel. as a result, both channels w

so we have germany on essentially the e you about to enter the post merkel era. do you think it's going to become any easier or more difficult to find common ground with russia on issues such as energy? i think that the new government will or might have a very pragmatic view. russia because says the new chancellor, probably new chancellor. mr. charles is a close friend and 8 former 8 of gab shredder. and he will of course, do everything to promote relations with russia. he is interested in the comic corporation and i think this will be materialized in the couple of new projects. i hope that that will continue at least the most important projects. but there are, of course, the greens and the leadership which may create certain problems because there are the logical against up against pipelines and against cooperation. the energy field was russia. yeah. how significant other say do you think they'll have well, it depends how the government will will be consistent of 3 parties. you have to know this. the chancellor has of course, the biggest power in the, in the, in